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Inflammation Process
Released cytokines induce adhesion molecules
- produced by endothelial cells
- recognized (bound) by leukocytes
- first see tumbling as approace
- then stop
- then diapedesis – squeezing through blood vessel wall into tissue
- now follow chemokines to site of infection
First neutrophils, later monocytes that differentiate into macrophages